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Post-mating clutch piracy in an amphibianDavid R Vieites
Laboratorio de Anatomía Animal, Departamento de Ecoloxia e Bioloxia Animal, Facultade de Ciencias Biolóxicas, Universidade de Vigo, Buzón 137, 36201 Vigo, Spain
Nature 431:305-8. 2004..This provides a good model to explore how alternative mating strategies can affect the intensity of sexual selection...
European Atlantic: the hottest oil spill hotspot worldwideDavid R Vieites
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics and Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Naturwissenschaften 91:535-8. 2004....
Rapid diversification and dispersal during periods of global warming by plethodontid salamandersDavid R Vieites
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:19903-7. 2007....
Mitochondrial evidence for distinct phylogeographic units in the endangered Malagasy poison frog Mantella bernhardiDavid R Vieites
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 3160, USA
Mol Ecol 15:1617-25. 2006....
The importance of comparative phylogeography in diagnosing introduced species: a lesson from the seal salamander, Desmognathus monticolaRonald M Bonett
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
BMC Ecol 7:7. 2007..Using Nested Clade Analysis (NCA) we test whether the Ozark isolate results from population fragmentation (a natural relict) or long distance dispersal (a human-mediated introduction)...
Geographical patterns of deep mitochondrial differentiation in widespread Malagasy reptilesLouis Boumans
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Mauritskade 61, 1092 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mol Phylogenet Evol 45:822-39. 2007....
Deciphering amphibian diversity through DNA barcoding: chances and challengesMiguel Vences
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Mauritskade 61, 1092 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360:1859-68. 2005..We suggest that a number of mitochondrial and nuclear genes may be used as DNA barcoding markers to complement cox1...
Individual and geographic variation of skin alkaloids in three species of Madagascan poison frogs (Mantella)John W Daly
Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, HHS, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Chem Ecol 34:252-79. 2008..Alkaloid compositions in mantellid poison frogs are diverse and highly dependent on geographic location that appear to be largely determined by the nature and availability of alkaloid-containing prey items...
Multiple overseas dispersal in amphibiansMiguel Vences
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
Proc Biol Sci 270:2435-42. 2003..Our results provide the strongest evidence so far that overseas dispersal of amphibians exists and is no rare exception, although vicariance certainly retains much of its importance in explaining amphibian biogeography...
Recurrent ecological adaptations revealed through a molecular analysis of the secretive cophyline frogs of MadagascarFranco Andreone
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Via G Giolitti 36, 10123 Torino, Italy
Mol Phylogenet Evol 34:315-22. 2005..Our results suggest that the genus Plethodontohyla is probably paraphyletic, and that the classification of this and of the genus Rhombophryne needs to be re-assessed...
Patterns of endemism and species richness in Malagasy cophyline frogs support a key role of mountainous areas for speciationKatharina C Wollenberg
Zoological Institute, Division of Evolutionary Biology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Spielmannstr 8, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Evolution 62:1890-907. 2008..High conservation priority is ascribed to these areas...
Asynchronous colonization of Madagascar by the four endemic clades of primates, tenrecs, carnivores, and rodents as inferred from nuclear genesCeline Poux
Department of Biochemistry 161, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, PO Box 9101, The Netherlands
Syst Biol 54:719-30. 2005....
Cytogenetic analysis of the Asian plethodontid salamander, Karsenia koreana: evidence for karyotypic conservation, chromosome repatterning, and genome size evolutionStanley K Sessions
Department of Biology, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, 13820, USA
Chromosome Res 16:563-74. 2008..The biological significance of these cytogenetic characteristics of plethodontid salamanders is discussed within an evolutionary context...
The challenge of conserving amphibian megadiversity in MadagascarFranco Andreone
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino, Torino, Italy
PLoS Biol 6:e118. 2008
